In Gaza, Lighters Become Priceless Amidst Crisis
Families in Gaza’s tent camps share and repair lighters as shortages push prices from 1 shekel to 100 shekels, Palestinians said.
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In Gaza's tent camps, a cigarette lighter becomes a lifeline
In Gaza, Lighters Become Priceless Amidst Crisis
In the southern Gaza tent camps, lighters have become critical survival tools amidst soaring prices and severe shortages. Displaced individuals, like Nisreen Abu Saada and Hassan Abu Latifa, rely on ingenious solutions to cope, highlighting the stark economic challenges exacerbated by ongoing conflict and limited aid deliveries in the region.
Displaced families share them from tent to tent so they can cook, bake bread and keep the fire going
In Gaza's tent camps, cigarette lighter a lifeline
In the sprawling tent camps of southern Gaza, a disposable cigarette lighter has become an unlikely luxury item, as essential to daily survival as food, water and fuel. For displaced mother-of-four Nisreen Abu Saada, lighting a cooking fire can be a daily struggle in a territory where gas remains scarce and families rely on burning cardboard, plastic and scraps of wood to prepare meals. “The tent is useless without a lighter,” she said. “There…
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